There may be quite a few people headed north to the City Market. "City Market is not only a great space to view the total eclipse but also to celebrate it! We're putting the party in watch party with a full schedule of FREE nighttime entertainment in the middle of the day." http://thecitym...

i hear lots of buildings are offering deals or lowering prices. how long does that happen before projects in the pipeline start to get jittery? When new buildings come on line, people involved are always jittery. There is pressure to perform and get cash flow going. As result, 'a month free with a ...

OK, I looked up the CID statutes . And as I suspected, no, that's not correct, loftguy. Changes in taxes assessed under a CID, and appointments to the CID board, must be approved by a majority of "qualified voters". These are defined at §67.1401(14): I'm not qualified to interpret the sta...

Note that the apartments proposed for Manor Square will be inside the boundaries of the Westport CID, and the apartments proposed for the BoA site will be inside the Broadway CID's boundaries. What happens when residents are added to a formerly unpopulated jurisdiction of this sort? Does it automat...

Justus and Shields are introducing a "moratorium" on development in Westport until historic survey is completed...in 9 months. it is unclear how this affects projects currently in pipeline process. http://kcrag.com/index.php Nine months?!? I can walk the area in a couple hours and note wh...

You are right. 4th Street east of Grand has in fact been vacated by the city. It is no longer under public control. Since they're now in private ownership someone needs to buy up all the properties along that corridor and create a village. 300 units of housing and a retail pedestrian mall sounds good.

^ Old Katz on Main and Westport not being bought by a developer was a HUGE missed opportunity. It strikes me as being seized, just by a very different and valuable kind of opportunity. What the current Drugstore culture is doing is to serve as an entrepreneurial pollinator. There's so much new and ...

Some of our data miners might offer more informed observations, but the details mean everything. How large is the population sample and where are the geographic pin drops? Add similar sample factoring to the measurement of 'violent crimes' and then you have a real conversation. Without the data stru...